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About Doug MacLeod, MacLeod Law Firm

For the past 30 years, Doug MacLeod, founder of the MacLeod Law Firm, a Canadian labour and employment law firm, has been advising and representing employers in connection with employee terminations. If you have any questions, you can contact him at 416 317-9894 or at [email protected].

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Doug’s top 5 employment law stories of 2022

Top 5 employment law stories for 2022: Temporary layoffs related to COVID, mandatory vaccine policy just cause for termination, disconnecting from work and electronic monitoring policies, employment contracts, and secretly tape recording workplace conversations.

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Ontario government revokes law that violated unionized workers constitutional rights

Yesterday, the Ontario government announced that it was revoking Bill 28 which was passed into law last Thursday. It imposed a collective agreement on about 55 000 education workers.

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Specific penalty clause renders an ESA termination clause unenforceable

If followed, a recent Ontario case could result in the elimination of many specific penalty clauses in employment contracts. A specific penalty clause states that if an employee engages in a specific behaviour then the employee agrees s/he can be terminated for just cause without any notice or termination pay in lieu of this notice.

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